https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MassMessage
Permission error
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You do not have permission to send a message to multiple users at once, for the following reason:
This feels a bit obtuse and the options for customizing the error message seem limited.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MassMessage
This is the standard MediaWiki error message when you try accessing a special page you don't have permission to see.
What more information do you want to add? I don't think it would be difficult to add a blank custom message above the error message.
(In reply to comment #1)
This is the standard MediaWiki error message when you try accessing a special
page you don't have permission to see.
Right.
What more information do you want to add? I don't think it would be difficult
to add a blank custom message above the error message.
Currently the error message provides two links, one to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] and one to [[Wikipedia:Mass message senders]]. This is what I think is a bit obtuse. The person hitting this error likely wants to answer "how can I send out a mass message?" so they'd likely really want a link to [[mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage]] or a local equivalent documentation page.
@MZMcBride If this is still relevant, I don't think that it is possible. The special page is declared with parent::__construct( 'MassMessage', 'massmessage' );, and so the default message created by the SpecialPage class is shown. Any customization would first have to be made possible there.
There is no clear goal for this task, so I'm closing it as invalid.
As a result of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/MassMessage/+/d93bd3e88016944e74044cfde5f5f39216f0fdcf by @He7d3r, there is now a "help" link to [[mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage]], which can be overridden locally as described in T227705#5330498